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Quotes About Suspicion

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.
~ George F. Will
People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, "Take whatever you want; just go.
~ Ilona Andrews
To drink or not to drink? That was the question. I sipped it. If he'd spiked it, I could still kill him before I passed out.
~ Ilona Andrews
Your horse has blood on her chin." I turned around, pulled a rag out of my pocket, and wiped the bloody smear off Tulip's face. "There you go. All good." Peyton gave me a suspicious look, and he and Tulip walked off. I loved my horse, but she always was a messy eater.
~ Ilona Andrews
Beast lay by my feet, gnawing on a bone Sean had given her. Through the day she had upgraded his status from kill on sight to suspicious to the man with delicious treats who can't be trusted.
~ Ilona Andrews
That's the third dog in two weeks, Margaret said. It has to be a mountain lion.
~ Ilona Andrews
Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.]
~ Immanuel Kant
The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.]
~ Immanuel Kant
Tutto ciò che è stato scritto dagli uomini sulle donne deve essere ritenuto sospetto dal momento che essi sono ad un tempo giudici e parti in causa.
~ Immanuel Kant
Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?
~ Ira Levin
Plato was suspicious of writing which seems to remove knowledge from the present moment of the individual and lodge it elsewhere, in books, which are inert and cannot defend themselves against fools.
~ Iris Murdoch
I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it.
~ Iris Murdoch
I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.
~ Iris Murdoch
He doesn't drink." "Your boss," said Michael, "is a dangerous alien.
~ Irwin Shaw
Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.
~ Isaac Asimov
Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man
~ Isaac Asimov
You distrusted the Imperials too. Most human beings do these days, which is an important factor in the decay and deterioration of the Empire.
~ Isaac Asimov
three ships lost in the same sector in the same year can't be accident, and
~ Isaac Asimov
it is an advantage for the murderer to be in charge of the murder investigation.
~ Isaac Asimov
If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.
~ Isaac Asimov
la castità è una zavorra; forse prima incuteva rispetto, ma ora è sospetta, nessuno lascia un bambino da solo con un prete
~ Isabel Allende
Ya sé lo que está pensando, jefe: el primer sospechoso es el cónyuge, pero no nos sirve, porque David Rosen tiene una buena coartada. —¿Cuál? —Se murió de un paro cardíaco en 1988.
~ Isabel Allende
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)
~ Ishmael Beah
This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.
~ Ishmael Beah